Research background
'So Much Tongue is part of a larger thesis on sincerity and autobiographical comics. The thesis asks what it means to talk about sincerity in comics, and how sincerity is related to or differs from authenticity and irony. It looks at how sincerity in autobiographic truth telling manifests in openness and intimacy, in a kinder, gentler tone (than perhaps authenticity) through both language and gesture; through not only the cartoonist’s words but through the cartoonist’s hand, and handwriting, on the comics page. '